Scheduling a hike on nearby trails is one of the many ways Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa can help incorporate wellness into meetings. Photo Credit: Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa
There are lots of ways to celebrate a significant anniversary. For 25 years of marriage, a list might not go over too well unless it’s 25 reasons why your spouse loves you more today than the day you were married. But I found this list, assembled by the groups and meetings team at Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa in honor of the property’s 25th birthday, to be insightful regarding changes that have happened in the meetings industry.
They concluded that since 1989, attire has gotten more casual, breakout sessions more creative and food and beverage offerings increasingly more inventive. Here are five more big changes by category.
- Mobile Meetings: The introduction of cell phones has been a significant change with regard to attendees being more plugged in during seminars.
- Tech Time: Technology has been one of the major changes as we went from providing projectors to PowerPoint presentations to being paperless with attendees now downloading apps and materials on iPads.
- Communication: Meeting planners’ preferred methods of communication has shifted. They used to conduct business only in-person or via phone calls. Now, planners submit RFPs via a website and only interact via the Internet.
- Meetings that Give Back: Groups have made a concerted effort to incorporate a charity component into meetings. Whether it is organizing an event for attendees to donate their time and help a local charity or companies collecting donations to contribute to a charity of their choice, we consistently have seen an increase of companies giving back monetarily or through giving time.
- Being Well: Incorporating wellness into meetings has been a positive shift throughout the years. We have seen a demand for healthier food and beverage options as well as seminars with our on-property, certified health coach.
